Best idea I've seen since the Tweets-into-toilet-paper idea:

Got a whole bunch of tweets you hold near and dear? Not happy enough to just look at them online? Like having a picture of yourself in your house? Have a creepy stalker-crush on a celebrity or just somebody with a public feed? In any of those cases, a Firebox tweet portrait might be right for you. All you need is a Twitter account with at least 230 tweets (or someone else’s) and 25 bucks.

When you enter a username, Firebox goes out and grabs the most recent tweets from the public timeline and colorizes them to match your profile picture. The posters are 24″ by 24″ and are written in 18pt font, so they’ll be readable from a ways away, but still look remarkably like your profile picture.

It’s sort of a neat idea, but I really can’t decide how I feel about it. Hanging a poster of your own words on your wall is sort of self-absorbed, even more so if they form a picture of you. Then again, if you were to alter your picture for a day to be something else, it might not be so bad. The fact that you can order a celebrity’s poster, or just some random guy’s, is also a little unsettling. Who is that into Lady Gaga. Okay, bad example. On the other hand, there are some “celebrity” accounts that would be perfect for this. Who could pass up a beautiful poster of @horse_ebooks tweets, or maybe the all-caps, word-salad stylings of @BARTSIMSON_REAL.

Buy it now: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Wondering what Rihanna, Shakira, and Gaga look like? Wonder no more!

Interesting idea for a funny birthday present.

I concur, sir. Frame it and you have something s/he can hang on the wall, too!